Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Electricity Amendment Bill No. 20 of 2009 was passed in the parliament today (June 09) without committee state amendments, by a majority of votes. Following the debate on the second reading of the Bill, the Opposition had demanded a vote. A total of 120 votes were cast in favour and […]

Courtesy Hiru News Basil Rajapaksa has handed over his resignation letter to the Secretary General of Parliament. The letter of resignation was handed over to the Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake at the Parliament premises today (09). Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa stated that he handed over the letter to the Secretary General of […]

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Them belly full but we hungryA hungry mob is an angry mobA rain a-fall but the dirt, it toughA pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough A hungry man is an angry man — Bob Marley and the Wailers Nobel Prize-winning Economist, Amartya Sen, long ago showed that Famine is a political […]

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Dr. Tilak S. Fernando   Signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord India expected to resolve the Sri Lanka terrorist war out of the Indo-Lanka Pact. The Indo-Lanka Pact was signed in Colombo on July 29 1987, between late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene. It was one of the conditions in […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ඊලාම් යුද්ධයේ දුර්විපාක සමාජය හඳුනාගන්නා කාලය තෙක් මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක රෝගාබාධයක් වූ පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය (Post-traumatic stress disorder -PTSD)  ශ්‍රී ලාංකාවට ආගන්තුක රෝග තත්වයක් විය. වියට්නාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ඇමරිකානු සමාජය වියට්නාම් සින්ඩ්‍රෝමය හඳුනාගත්තාක් සේ ඊලාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සමාජය පලාලි සින්ඩ්‍රෝමය හෙවත් සංග්‍රාමික පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය හඳුනා ගන්නා ලදි.  එහෙත් […]

Courtesy The Daily News India has said Europe must see not oil imports from Russia from a political lens. Speaking at Globsec 2022 Bratislava forum, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, We don’t send people to buy Russian oil, we send people to buy oil in the market, buy the best oil.” Jaishankar also highlighted […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් සෑම දිනකම මධ්‍යම රාත්‍රී 12.00  වන විට ත් පසු දින පාස්පෝට් පෝලිමට 350 කට වැඩි පිරිසක් එක්වේ.  මෙයට අමතරව 2000 කට වැඩි පිරිසක් කලින් වෙළාව වෙන් ගනිති. සේවා ලබා ගැනීමට පැමිණෙන ජනතාව මෙන්ම  පාස්පෝට් කාර්යාලයේ සේවකයින්ගෙන් ද මෙලෙස අමානුෂීය ලෙස වැඩ ගැනීම ජාත්‍යන්තරව පිළිගත් කම්කරු නීති, මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කිරීමකි. ආගමන හා […]

By KJM Varma Coutesy Rediff.com China on Wednesday praised India for making “great efforts” to help Colombo to tide over its worst financial crisis even as it refuted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s remarks that Beijing has shifted its strategic focus from South Asia including Pakistan to South East Asia, saying the region still remained its […]

Courtesy Reliefweb Kuala Lumpur/Colombo, 8 June 2022 – The economic crisis in Sri Lanka is spiraling into a humanitarian emergency as millions of people face acute shortages of food, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) warned today. Responding to the unfolding emergency, the IFRC has launched an Emergency […]

Alasdair Pal and Devjyot Ghoshal, Reuters Courtesy Gulf Today It was the moment when two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka’s politics for nearly 20 years finally went their separate ways. On May 9, when a crowd of ruling party supporters marched towards activists protesting against a crippling economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered police to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Intervention made by lawyer and fiscal officer in Aeroflot affair extraordinary. Justice, Prison Affairs, Constitutional Reforms Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa, PC, has warned that the abolition of the Executive Presidency hastily, will plunge the country into anarchy. The SLPP Colombo District MP said that as the Executive Presidential system […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While warning Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions not to go for a blackout, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he could not guarantee that India would help Sri Lanka to obtain fuel if they did so. The Prime Minister told Parliament that only India was helping Sri Lanka to purchase […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he would do his utmost to secure the assistance of the International Monetary Fund for Sri Lanka by this September. The Sri Lankan Premier and Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva have discussed the island nation’s current economic situation during a telephone conversation yesterday. The IMF chief […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Gazette Extraordinary has been issued declaring the supply of electricity an essential service effective from today (June 08). The communique was issued by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, by virtue of the powers vested in him in terms of Section 2 of the Essential Public Services Act, No. 61 of 1979.

Courtesy Adaderana China has been paying close attention to the current difficulties and challenges Sri Lanka faces and assisting the country within its capacity, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily news briefing when answering a relevant query. According to Zhao, China has announced emergency humanitarian […]

Courtesy Adaderana Business tycoon Dhammika Perera is tipped to enter the parliament through the National List of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), sources told Ada Derana. According to sources, Mr. Perera is also expected to take up a ministerial portfolio involving the investment sector. Reportedly, Mr. Perera will fill the National List parliamentary seat likely […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa has decided to step down from his parliamentary seat, political sources of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna told Ada Derana. According to sources, Basil Rajapaksa is expected to deliver a special statement in this regard tomorrow. 

KAMALIKA PIERIS The departure of Mahinda Rajapaksa from the Pohottu government resembled a scene from a film. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had asked Brother Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign as Prime Minister. Instead, on May 9. 2022, Mahinda Rajapaksa convened a meeting of his supporters,   at Temple Trees, and asked them whether he should go or stay. Stay! […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is an island nation. A government is elected only for a term. A government is only temporary custodian and guardian of the State. A State comprises its People and its Resources. These resources are to be enjoyed not only by this generation but future generations as well. Therefore, it is […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda Answering the last question raised by the interviewer at a live televised conversation with Prof. Ajith Dissanayake  under the ‘’Big Question’’ program of Sri Lanka Rupavahini dated 24th May 2002 (https://youtu.be/s73PKlWj4cg) , Prof. Dissanayake quite correctly hinted who should be behind the current turmoil  in Sri Lanka. He sighted Rukada Natya (Puppet dramas) […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Tamils for Biden: “Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is due to many factors. One major factor is the war and the money that Sri Lanka borrowed to buy destructive weapons.” Response: Yes, the brutal war you terrorists heaped on us was the number one cause! Sri Lanka didn’t have any smart weaponry when […]

By Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan  The World Bank recently released and cataloged an item named “Unpacking the Silent Economic Revolution in Bangladesh” under ‘the ICP (International Comparison Programme) publications 2022-21’program on their website. On March 2, 2022, the item was first published in Pakistan’s internationally accepted weekly ‘The Friday Times. Basically ‘The World Bank has admired […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 7 (AdaDerana) – The Cabinet of Ministers has unanimously agreed to serve without salaries for a period of one year, Minister Bandula Gunawardena says. His remarks came during the media briefing convened this morning (June 07) to announce Cabinet decisions. The relevant proposal has been presented by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 7: The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Tuesday, that Sri Lanka has been badly mishandling relations with its tried and trusted friends in the international sphere. India, China and Japan are leading the list of countries that provide us with loans and assistance. Relations with […]

Courtesy News18 Sri Lanka has sought a USD 55 million loan from India for the procurement of urea amidst its worst economic crisis threatening a severe food shortage, an official said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had recently warned of a food crisis in the island nation due to the ongoing economic crisis. The Cabinet has […]

BY FARAZ SHAUKETALY Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka became the world’s first and only all-organic farming nation albeit for a short while. This came about when President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa banned the importation of all pesticides and chemical fertilisers overnight. That Presidential proclamation would mark the definitive end of South Asia’s most powerful political dynasty, the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Insurgent attacks on lawmakers’ houses SLPP lawmaker Dr. Nalaka Godahewa has questioned the failure on the part of the new administration to investigate the organised violence, unleashed on members of Parliament, on May 09. Dr. Godahewa, who was the Media Minister at the time violence erupted, countrywide, in the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror CB pushed back on claims that it was another pegged exchange rate  Says inflows seen picking up, Fx conversions improve since restrictions on Open Accounts  Further easing in Fx rate is expected amid easing imports and with multilateral and bilateral funding kicking in  Staff-level agreement with IMF expected this month on […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet had approved to import 150,000 metric tons of Urea, 45,000 metric tons of Muriate of Potash (MOP) and 36,000 metric tons of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizers for paddy cultivation for the 2022/23 Maha season. The Ceylon Fertilizer Company Limited and Colombo Commercial Fertilizer Company Limited to import the […]